This book provides a contemporary treatment of quantitative economics, with a focus on data science. The book introduces the reader to R and RStudio, and uses expert Hadley Wickham’s tidyverse package for different parts of the data analysis workflow. After a gentle introduction to R code, the...

This paper demonstrates the use of the versatile open-source software R in environmental economics courses. We look at several examples in environmental economics — forests, air pollution, and the spread of biologically invasive species like the coronavirus. We begin at a very basic level both...